There are several good-looking literary works: Pride and Prejudice, Red and Black, Human Comedy, Vanity Fair, The Old Man and the Sea, The Unbearable Lightness of Life, Jane Eyre, La Traviata, If you give me three days of light, Father and Son, Robinson Crusoe and so on. China's literary masterpieces, such as The Analects of Confucius, The Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Tao Te Ching, Warring States Policy, Thirty-six Strategies, Historical Records, etc. Modern works such as Lu Xun's Scream, Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged, Lu Yao's Ordinary World and Life, and some works by Lao She and Ba Jin; Modern writers prefer some works by Wang Xiaobo and Zhou Heyu.
Among the better foreign language poetry collections, I recommend the following: Dante's Divine Comedy, Tagore's Birds, Crescent Moon, Goethe's Faust, Homer's Odyssey, Shelley's poems, Pushkin's poems and so on.